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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Documentation/email-clients.txt: discuss In-Reply-To
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 14:11:48 -0500
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> wrote:

> On 11/05/2015 01:31 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:13:01 -0400
> > Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> wrote:
> >
> >> +When manually adding In-Reply-To: headers to a patch (e.g., using `git
> >> +send email`), use common sense to associate the patch with previous
> >> +relevant discussion, e.g. link a bug fix to the email with the bug report.
> >> +For a multi-patch series, it is generally best to avoid using
> >> +In-Reply-To: to link to older versions of the series. This way
> >> +multiple versions of the patch don't become an unmanageable forest of
> >> +references in email clients. If a link is helpful, you can use an
> >> +"http://lkml.kernel.org/r/MESSAGEID" URL (e.g., in the cover email
> >> +text) to link to an earlier version of the patch series.
> > So this is sitting in my docs folder waiting to see if anybody else had
> > anything to say. Nope. I guess I'm not opposed to this addition, but
> > I'm not quite sure what problem is being solved. Is there a plague of
> > inappropriate hand-crafted In-Reply-To headers out there that I've not
> > seen?
>
> The "git help send-email" documentation for "--in-reply-to" suggests
> building hand-crafted In-Reply-To headers this way for subsequent
> versions of patch series. This paragraph is intended to suggest that's
> a bad idea.
>
> > Beyond that, this seems like advice that is better put into
> > SubmittingPatches if we really want it.
>
> That was my original thought, but Peter suggested email-clients.txt:
>
> lkml.kernel.org/r/20151023090459.GW17308@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
>

Peter said "maybe". I would think keeping this in SubmittingPatches
would be better, as that's the one place we point people to to read
(and I should re-read).

-- Steve


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